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W. H. SCOTT.

CLOTHES STICK.

1T9 3 9 8,089. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

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\VILLIAH H. SCOTT, OF TORONTO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HESTER VEALE HARDY, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTH ES-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,089, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed July '7, 1888. Serial No. 279,274. (No modeL) To all whom it may 0072007 71..-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY Soo'rr, jeweler, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a certain new and Improved Clothes-Stick, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to construct a clothes-stick of that class by which each separate article in the boiler may be grasped and the Water therein partially removed therefrom before it is removed from the boiler; and it consists in the peculiar combination and construction of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a Washboiler and of my improved clothes-stick as it will appear in its normal position before seizing an article. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing my clothes-stick in the act of removing an article from the boiler.

A represents two metal stocks pivoted together, and B represents two sticks fitted into sockets formed in the stocks A.

0 represents two shorter sticks fitted into sockets formed in the opposite ends of the stocks A.

I do not wish to confine myself totlle exact function of the spring being to hold the sticks open, as before mentioned.

In order to get a good grip 011 the article to be removed from the boiler E, I prefer to cross-flute the sticks, as indicated in the drawings, or longitudinal flutes may be made in the said sticks; but I do not claim the fluting as any part of my invention.

On reference to Fig. 1 it will be noticed that only one hand is required to use my improved stick, and that a single article may be readily gripped, and by twisting the stick the article so gripped may be freed of much of the surplus Water before the article is removed from the boiler.

NVhat I claim as my invention is The clothes-stick described, consisting of the stocks A, pivotally connected together and formed With sockets, the sticks B, fitted into the sockets at one end of said stocks, the shorter sticks O, fitted into the sockets at the other end of said stocks, and the spiral spring connecting the ends of said shorter sticks, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Toronto, June 19, 1888.

\V. H. SCOTT.

In presence of CHARLES C. BALDWIN, J. M. JAcKsoN.

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